Human Rights Documentation Centre
Encyclopedia
The Human Rights Documentation Centre based in Delhi
, India is a non-governmental organization
supporting human rights
. It has a sister organisation, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre with which it publishes a journal Human Rights Features (first issue, June 2006).
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, India is a non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...
supporting human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
. It has a sister organisation, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre with which it publishes a journal Human Rights Features (first issue, June 2006).